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And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, wh...more

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It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals...more

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As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from t...more

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If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I...more

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Have we,” asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great ‘unknown philosopher,’ “have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that ...more

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought,...more

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It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow i...more

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… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in sile...more